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One of the most fascinating things about history is how it affects the culture and customs of the generations of that time and the generations to come. The Revolutions of 1917 in Russia embarked on a cultural transformation that affected millions of people throughout Eastern Europe and Northern Asia and still affects them to this …

In 1910 Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii ventured out into the Ural Mountains and captured this picture of the so-called “Guard Dogs”. I hope that Prokudin-Gorskii was being facetious with that title because those dogs do not look particularly interested in guarding anything. The dogs depicted in the picture are Yakutian Laika dogs which are commonly found within the region surrounding …